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One of the fun things about running the "Inside Aperture" site is receiving reader contributions. Every now and then a clever new technique shows up in our aperture@oreilly.com mailbox, many of which I try. But why should I get to have all the fun? So, this week I'm
sharing a handful of reader-submitted techniques. My guess is that you'll find one or two particularly useful. Read Reader Submitted Tips for Aperture.
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Sometimes the advanced techniques make more sense when you fully understand the basics. In this Inside Aperture podcast, Joe Schorr reviews a couple of basic techniques, such as Primary Only, then moves into more advanced topics.
Primary Only is worth illustrating here. When you have a handful of images selected and are looking at them in viewer mode, you can visually tell if Primary Only is on or off. If it is on, then only one of the images will have a white border. Even though multiple images are displayed, any changes you make will only be applied to the one image with the white border.
When "Primary Only" is turned on, there is only one white border in viewer mode. Photos provided by The Digital Story members.
If Primary Only is turned off, then you will see faint white borders around all of the selected images, and changes will be applied to all of the selected photos.
When "Primary Only" is turned off, there are faint white borders around all of the selected images in viewer mode.
Joe does a great job of explaining Primary Only, then moves into other areas such as Album Picks. This is a discussion you'll want to listen to more than once!
(Inside Aperture, July 3, 2007: 22 minutes, 35 seconds)
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Control-click to download this MP3 file.Derrick Story is the digital media evangelist for O'Reilly. His experience includes more than 20 years as a photojournalist, managing editor for O'Reilly Network, and a speaker for IDG, PMA, and Santa Fe Workshops. He is the author of Digital Photography Hacks, Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Ed., and his latest, The Digital Photography Companion.
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Now I know I am one of about 10% who read the manuals, but shouldn't all the power of Aperture be documented for easy finding? I would like one location, a manual, where EVERYthing is laid out and easily accessed. I find myself searching Blogs, podcasts, Interviews, Teaching sites, Manuals, Readmes and getting hit and miss info, but no concise area of all the shortcuts, commands and power that Aperture has hidden under the hood.
But until that all comes together, please keep up the great information forum on Aperture.
John Houghton
Ontario Canada